THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has announced it will shoulder the full cost of treatment for all COVID-19 cases until Apr. 14, 2020.
The reason for this accommodation window is due to the novelty and the wide range of severity of the disease in the country for which no existing case rate or package based on accepted protocols has yet been established, part of its official statement read.
PhilHealth is also confident that by the above mentioned date, “more about the behavior of the disease in the Philippines can be learned, a final protocol established and an appropriate case rate developed that will provide adequacy and sustainability to the campaign against COVID-19.”
Before then, it shall issue a new set of
guidelines which will include the appropriate case rate based on accepted
protocols in dealing with the disease.
“PhilHealth wishes to assure all Filipinos that even under the period of this
pandemic it intends to fulfill its mandate under the Universal Health Care Law
of providing adequate health service to all Filipinos when needed,” it said./PN
